Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante And Goethe
10 best books like Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante And Goethe (George Santayana): The Elizabethan World Picture, Some Anatomies of Melancholy, Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Abba Abba, Conversations of Goethe, The Nature of Greek Myths, Poets in a Landscape, Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust, Dante: Poet of the Secular World
| Author | Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard |
| ISBN | 0394701623 |
This brief & illuminating account of the ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan age & later is an useful companion for readers of the great writers of the 16th & 17th centuries: Shakespeare, the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne, Milton etc. The basic medieval idea of an ordered...
| Author | Robert Burton |
| ISBN | 0141036788 |
Not simply an investigation into melancholy, these unique essays form part of a panoramic celebration of human behaviour from the time of the ancients to the Renaissance. God, devils, old age, diet, drunkenness, love and beauty are each given equal consideration in this all-encompassing examination...
| Author | Pablo Neruda |
| ISBN | 0807064890 |
This book took me a long time to finish, because I took full advantage of the fact that it had the original Spanish as well as an English translation for each poem. I really like that set-up, which lets me read the parts I can handle in Spanish, but still be able to understand those that are beyond my capabilities....
| Author | Alex Preminger |
| ISBN | 0691021236 |
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics is a comprehensive reference work dealing with all aspects of its subject: history, types, movements, prosody, and critical terminology. Prepared by recognized authorities, its articles treat their topics in sufficient depth and with enough...
| Author | Anthony Burgess |
| ISBN | 0749390387 |
This is Anthony Burgess's 22nd novel. A Clockwork Orange (1962) was his Ninth.
The theme of the book "ABBA ABBA" concerns itself with the last months in the life of John Keats. In Part One, the poet has various adventures such as meeting the Roman poet, who becomes an acquaintance, Giuseppe Gioacchino...
| Author | Johann Peter Eckermann |
| ISBN | 0306808811 |
It is a delightful book. I cannot help giving this book full five stars (This feels weird, though, to give such books stars).
I like every page of the book. Right at the beginning, Eckermann writes about his impoverished childhood and his realization that he is gifted.
Later in the Book,...
The Nature of Greek Myths
| Author | Geoffrey S. Kirk |
| ISBN | 0140135367 |
Professor Kirk has examined these universal theories in detail. They are all, he admits, illuminating, but none is adequate by itself, because these ' traditional tales ' are of such variety that no single theory that can embrace them all. His general analysis of the nature of myth is followed by a splendid...
| Author | Gilbert Highet |
| ISBN | 1853753017 |
Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, “I have endeavored to recall some...
Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust
| Author | Paul De Man |
| ISBN | 0300028458 |
This important theoretical work by Paul de Man sets forth a mode of reading and interpretation based on exemplary texts by Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust. The readings start from unresolved difficulties in the critical traditions engendered by these authors, and they return to the...
| Author | Erich Auerbach |
| ISBN | 1590172191 |
Erich Auerbach’s Dante: Poet of the Secular World is an inspiring introduction to one of world’s greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and still provocative essay in the history of ideas. Here Auerbach, thought by many to be the greatest of twentieth-century scholar-critics, makes the...
| Author | F.R. Leavis |
| ISBN | 0140214879 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references,...
| Author | Leo Bersani |
| ISBN | 0674406206 |
Acclaimed for his intricate, incisive, and often controversial explorations of art, literature, and society, Leo Bersani now addresses homosexuality in America.
Hardly a day goes by without the media focusing an often sympathetic beam on gay life--and, with AIDS, on gay death. Gay plays...
The Middle of the Journey
| Author | Lionel Trilling |
| ISBN | 1590170156 |
Published in 1947, as the cold war was heating up, Lionel Trilling’s only novel was a prophetic reckoning with the bitter ideological disputes that were to come to a head in the McCarthy era. The Middle of the Journey revolves around a political turncoat and the anger his action awakens among a group...
| Author | Ivor A. Richards |
| ISBN | 0415254027 |
To us, Richards was infinitely more than a brilliantly new literary critic: he was our guide, our evangelist who revealed to us, in a succession of astounding lightning flashes, the entire expanse of the Modern World: Christopher Isherwood Ivor Armstrong Richards was one of the founders of modern...
| Author | Gertrude Stein |
| ISBN | 0679724648 |
"This collection, a retrospective exhibit of the work of a woman who created a unique place for herself in the world of letters, contains a sample of practically every period and every manner in Gertrude Stein's career. It includes The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in its entirety; selected passages...
| Author | Octavio Paz |
| ISBN | 0811201503 |
Configurations was his first major collection to be published in this country, and includes in their entirety Sun Stone (1957) and Blanco (1967). Paz himself translated many of the poems from the Spanish. Some distinguished contributors to this bilingual edition include, among others, Paul Blackburn,...
| Author | Terry Eagleton |
| ISBN | 1405151412 |
Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader.
Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and...
Notes on Thought and Vision by Imagist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) is an aphoristic meditation on how one works toward an ideal body-mind synthesis; a contemplation of the sources of imagination and the creative process; and a study of gender differences H.D. believed to be inherent in women's and...
| Author | Roger Shattuck |
| ISBN | 0394704150 |
The definitive chronicle of the origins of French avant-garde literature and art, Roger Shattuck's classic portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period of renewal and accomplishment and laid the groundwork for Dadaism and Surrealism. Shattuck...
The Essays, Vol. 1: 1904-1912
| Author | Virginia Woolf |
| ISBN | 0156290545 |
LOVE HER ESSAYS!!! Virginia Woolf published many essays throughout her lifetime. After her death, her husband, Leonard Woolf, collected all her published essays and put them into four uniform volumes, this being Volume One. In each of these essays, Mr. Woolf believes, have stood the test of time and...
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
Homer and Classical Philology , by Friedrich Nietzsche
Homer und die klassische Philologie is Friedrich Nietzsche's 1869 Antrittsvorlesung (inaugural address) at the University of Basel. In the tradition of German language universities, a newly installed professor gives a public address...
| Author | Paul Monette |
| ISBN | 0758201893 |
Paul Monette
* 16. Oktober 1945
† 10. Februar 1995
Dying was nothing to losing.
All my death watches having taught me that the thing itself when it finally came was beyond feeling.
This book is so eloquent, I would have to highlight the whole book to...
| Author | Peter Frederick Strawson |
| ISBN | 0415051851 |
Since its publication in 1959, Individuals has become a modern philosophical classic. Bold in scope and ambition, it continues to influence debates in metaphysics, philosophy of logic and language, and epistemology. Peter Strawson's most famous work, it sets out to describe nothing less than the...
| Author | Essex Hemphill |
| ISBN | 0978625110 |
Literary Nonfiction. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. Winner of a Lambda Literary Award. BROTHER TO BROTHER, begun by Joseph Beam and completed by Essex Hemphill after Beam's death in 1988, is a collection of now-classic literary work by black gay male writers. Originally published in 1991...
| Author | M.H. Abrams |
| ISBN | 0393006093 |
In this remarkable new book, M. H. Abrams definitively studies the Romantic Age (1789–1835)—the age in which Shelley claimed that "the literature of England has arisen as it were from a new birth." Abrams shows that the major poets of the age had in common important themes, modes of expression,...
